Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 2 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 3 | In particular the Polish government ( supported by the UK government , with which Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki had talks in London on Feb. 14 , and by Modrow , who visited Warsaw on Feb. 16 ) sought to participate in the second phase of the two-plus-four talks . |
| 4 | We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village . |
| 5 | Matter of of people who 'd died in the first world war . |
| 6 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
| 7 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 8 | So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand . |
| 9 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 10 | He 'd fought in the last war and is a very intelligent and basically optimistic person , like John . |
| 11 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
| 12 | In 1970 the Heath government sought to fit in the third piece of the Plowden jigsaw — the efficiency function . |
| 13 | Next 's 8 p.c. fewer high street shops , to 312 , returned to profit in the second half and sales rose 6 p.c. year-on-year after a 9 p.c. second-half rise . |
| 14 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |
| 15 | Franco himself may have realized this , for his erstwhile enthusiasm for Arrese and his project began to wane in the second half of 1956 , as opposition to it became more widespread and vocal among the non-Falangist sectors of the regime . |
| 16 | Things began to improve in the nineteenth century , however , when more coordinated methods were employed , and for the first time , digging began to be directed at finding out about Pompeii , rather than making a profit . |
| 17 | The strain under which Airdrie are operating began to tell in the second half when Falkirk attempted to mount a fightback . |
| 18 | In his lifetime an obscure figure ( he was ignored by contemporary obituarists ) , he became known in the twentieth century through the publication of his Diaries , journals of horseback tours through England and Wales . |
| 19 | ‘ How did they get the £250,000 spare wealth needed to qualify in the first place ’ , is one theme I hear from these envy-driven commentators . |
| 20 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 21 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 22 | After a year at Oxford University , Edward went to fight in the First World War . |
| 23 | In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute . |
| 24 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 25 | We chose to investigate in the first place the speech of those who are not very likely to be directly affected by mainstream norms , and whose speech is of the type that had been least explored by descriptive linguists — the urban working class . |
| 26 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
| 27 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
| 28 | This predicted 91% of fetuses who became distressed in the first stage of labour , and combination with ultrasonographic estimation of the volume of amniotic fluid improved prediction to 100% with only a slight fall in specificity . |
| 29 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |
| 30 | If you feel comfortable going in second one of these and these alone , that 's fine by him do what we did come in the first place , you can go in , take your briefcase pop it down there , this says to them , this is where I 'm gon na work from , is that okay with you ? |